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Canada approves Huawei extradition process, sparking ire from China
Donald Trump asks China to abolish tariffs on US farm produce
SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launches successfully
‘It looked prehistoric’: angler describes fish that resembled creature from Alien
Malian jihadist leader said to have been killed by France is alive
Rock’n’roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis suffers minor stroke
Saudi Arabia: detained women's rights activists to be put on trial
Easter Island looks for help to save statues from 'leprosy'
'Bike country No 1': Dutch go electric in record numbers
New York politicians and business leaders plead with Bezos to reconsider Amazon deal
Former Melbourne bikie leader Amad Malkoun injured in Athens car blast
Glenda Jackson: ‘I’m a big admirer of Theresa May’
Wigan murder inquiry launched as police quiz man over death of baby
Barnier 'working on legal add-on' to Brexit deal to help May
Elecia Dexter on replacing editor who endorsed the KKK: ‘I was in shock’
The medevac bill is law: what does that mean for ailing offshore refugees?
Sydney Mardi Gras kicks off with fireworks and flame balls
Only six countries in the world give women and men equal legal work rights
Global war on drugs could harm efforts to abolish death sentences - study
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at four school strikes in a week – video
Pakistan returns captured Indian pilot – video
Friends speak out about the police killing of Willie McCoy – video

Canada approves Huawei extradition process, sparking ire from China

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:41 AM PST

China has demanded the release of Meng Wanzhou, the company's chief financial officer, who is in Vancouver under house arrest

Canada has approved extradition proceedings against the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, prompting a furious reaction from China.

Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei's founder, was detained in Vancouver last December and is under house arrest. In late January, the US justice department charged Meng and Huawei with conspiring to violate US sanctions on Iran.

Donald Trump asks China to abolish tariffs on US farm produce

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 08:35 PM PST

The US president says it is 'very important for our farmers' while adding that trade talks are 'moving along nicely'

Donald Trump has urged China to abolish tariffs on agricultural products imported from the United States – adding that trade talks between the rival powers were going well.

"I have asked China to immediately remove all Tariffs on our agricultural products (including beef, pork, etc.)," the US president wrote on Twitter.

SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launches successfully

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 12:50 AM PST

Launch brings US plans to resume sending people into space in own spacecraft closer

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft took off on Saturday morning, marking the first major step toward US ambitions to resume sending astronauts into space in its own spacecraft from American soil.

The uncrewed spacecraft launched as planned from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 2.49am local time (07.49 GMT), on top of a Falcon 9 rocket and carrying a dummy pilot called Ripley – a nod to Sigourney Weaver's character in the Alien movies.

‘It looked prehistoric’: angler describes fish that resembled creature from Alien

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 02:03 PM PST

Rare mud-dwelling fish, with sharp teeth and no eyes, is believed to be a worm goby, but is not dangerous

An Australian fisherman, who captured a rare, unsettling fish that resembled a creature from the sci-fi film Alien, says it was "not all that exciting" and he caught it with a beer in his hand.

Andrew Rose was fishing in the Northern Territory's Kakadu national park when he snagged a 15cm-long worm goby – a rare, mud-dwelling fish with no eyes, a bony head and sharp teeth.

Malian jihadist leader said to have been killed by France is alive

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 05:51 PM PST

Amadou Koufa appears in video three months after French armed forces minister declared him 'neutralised'

A senior jihadist leader in Mali whom France said it had killed last November survived the attack and appears in a new propaganda video mocking French and Malian forces.

The French armed forces minister, Florence Parly, told parliament a few days after the 22 November raid that Amadou Koufa, a radical preacher and senior leader of a militant group linked to al-Qaida, was one of 35 fighters who had been "neutralised".

Rock’n’roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis suffers minor stroke

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 06:42 PM PST

American musician, 83, expected to make full recovery, according to representative

Rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis has suffered a minor stroke, a representative for the star has said.

The 83-year-old was expected to make a full recovery and was recuperating in Memphis with his family by his bedside after falling ill on Thursday, Zach Farnum said.

Saudi Arabia: detained women's rights activists to be put on trial

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 09:45 PM PST

More than dozen arrested in 2018 and rights groups say some have been tortured

Saudi women's rights activists detained last year in a sweeping crackdown on campaigners will be put on trial, prosecutors have said.

"The public prosecution would like to announce that it has concluded its investigation and prepared the indictment list against the defendants ... and will refer the case to the relevant court," the state-controlled Saudi Press Agency said on Friday.

Easter Island looks for help to save statues from 'leprosy'

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 12:31 PM PST

White spots eating away at the sculptures are softening them to a clay-like consistency and deforming their features

Within a century the emblematic stone figures that guard remote Easter Island could be little more than weathered rectangular blocks, conservation experts are warning – but Britain could be part of the fix.

The giant heads, carved centuries ago by the island's inhabitants, represent the living ancestors of Easter Island's Polynesian people – the Rapa Nui – and have brought it Unesco world heritage site status in its Pacific location more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile.

'Bike country No 1': Dutch go electric in record numbers

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 09:56 AM PST

E-bikes now outsell standard bicycles in Netherlands, with quality prized more than price

In what was already a long-running purple patch for the Dutch cycle industry, domestic sales records have been broken in the last 12 months despite spiralling prices, as technological developments push the standard push-bike into the annals of history.

New York politicians and business leaders plead with Bezos to reconsider Amazon deal

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 10:06 AM PST

Cuomo says he has been talking to Amazon executives as 80 political and industry leaders take out New York Times ad

New York's governor and prominent business leaders are making a last-ditch effort to lure Amazon back to the Big Apple after the company abruptly abandoned plans for a new headquarters there following some loud local opposition.

Former Melbourne bikie leader Amad Malkoun injured in Athens car blast

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 05:26 PM PST

Authorities believe bomb attack might have been carried out by an organised crime gang

The former Melbourne bikie leader Amad "Jay" Malkoun has been seriously injured in an apparent car bomb attack in Athens.

Malkoun, who was previously Victorian head of the Comancheros, was attempting to start his Mercedes outside a gym in the upmarket suburb of Glyfada on Friday when the blast occurred.

Glenda Jackson: ‘I’m a big admirer of Theresa May’

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:00 AM PST

The former MP is set to play King Lear in New York – her second take on the role. She talks acting, ambition, and her admiration for the woman 'slogging away' at Brexit

Glenda Jackson, 82, enters the hotel bar in an ankle-length puffer coat and woolly hat that, in spite of her extravagant and long-held scorn for vanity, she complains makes her look as if she doesn't have hair. She is in New York for a Broadway run of King Lear, a fresh take on the title role she played in London three years ago, although she has long since forgotten the lines. "No," she says, poetry isn't easier to memorise than prose. "No," memorising doesn't become harder the less you do it, and "No!" – preposterous suggestion – one doesn't get used to the adrenaline of appearing on stage. "You never become accustomed to it!" says Jackson, blinking vigorously before laughing with gusto. "We're all sadomasochists, let's face it. We all enter into this horrific, undiscovered space."

The effect of all this, it should be said, is neither grand nor "scary" – as Jackson, or any woman expressing herself in terms stronger than mild disdain, is wont to be described – but impish, with a light touch of hooliganism. One gets the feeling Jackson never agrees with the premise of a question as a matter of principle. For years, people have been trying to describe her peculiar force with reference to her peculiar beauty, likening her face to, among other things, "a Francis Bacon portrait of itself" (the LA Times), "a wonderful map" (Jane Birkin) and, in a line from a Time magazine profile of the 1970s, "a fire whose shadows torture the walls even as one is warmed by it", which is to say she is difficult to fit into pre-existing categories. Something about her – her severity, her glaring resistance to anti-ageing protocols, above all, her decision to quit acting to sit in parliament for 23 years – continues to be bafflingly avant garde.

Wigan murder inquiry launched as police quiz man over death of baby

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 02:14 AM PST

Greater Manchester police question man, 32, over death of one-year-old girl on Friday

Police are questioning a man on suspicion of murder after a baby girl died in Wigan.

Greater Manchester police said medical staff alerted officers at around 2pm on Thursday that a one-year-old child was being taken to hospital with head injuries.

Barnier 'working on legal add-on' to Brexit deal to help May

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 02:46 PM PST

EU negotiator frustrated at UK demands over Irish backstop but is considering adjunct to deal

Michel Barnier has told EU ambassadors that he is having to repeatedly rebut British demands for a time limit on the Irish backstop but that he is working on a legal add-on to the Brexit deal to help the prime minister.

During a meeting on Friday in Brussels, the EU's chief negotiator expressed frustration with the British demands after the latest round of talks. "The UK side keeps on insisting on the same two things," one EU diplomat said following Barnier's briefing after the latest week of talks. "And we keep on explaining why it won't happen."

Elecia Dexter on replacing editor who endorsed the KKK: ‘I was in shock’

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:00 AM PST

After Alabama newspaper editor Goodloe Sutton published an editorial calling for the Klan to 'ride again', Dexter explains how she ended up taking over his role

Elecia Dexter figured she would just resign.

The medevac bill is law: what does that mean for ailing offshore refugees?

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 05:21 PM PST

A diversion to Christmas Island, a change of law on Nauru and other complications may hinder the ability to provide care

When the medevac bill – which on Friday became law – passed parliament, it was intended to create a streamlined process to get sick refugees and asylum seekers into the medical care they needed in Australia, because it wasn't available on Manus Island or Nauru.

The government expressed concerns the bill could lead to weakened borders and national security. Amendments to the bill gave the minister 72 hours to assess a transfer referral which, if he or she refused, would be sent to an independent medical panel. The panel could override a minister's refusal on health grounds but the minister has the final veto if there are security issues surrounding the patient.

Sydney Mardi Gras kicks off with fireworks and flame balls

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:54 AM PST

Thousands gather as city embraces theme of 'fearless' for its 41st LGBT parade

Thousands of people have gathered along Sydney's Oxford Street as the city embraces the theme of "fearless" for its 41st Mardi Gras parade.

The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, and the federal MP for Wentworth, Kerryn Phelps, are among the 300,000 expected to watch the festivities.

Only six countries in the world give women and men equal legal work rights

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 08:49 AM PST

Sweden and France among states found by the World Bank to enshrine gender equality in laws, but implementation haphazard

If you're a woman and want to be on an equal footing with men, it's best to live and work in Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg or Sweden. The World Bank, which has tracked legal changes for the past decade, found these were the only countries in the world to enshrine gender equality in laws affecting work.

The bank's women, business and the law 2019 report, published this week, measured gender discrimination in 187 countries. It found that, a decade ago, no country gave women and men equal legal rights.

Global war on drugs could harm efforts to abolish death sentences - study

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 06:36 AM PST

Iran reforms drive 90% fall in death penalty worldwide, but report warns hardline approach to minor cases violates human rights

Global efforts to abolish the death penalty are in danger of being undermined by anti-drug governments that use capital punishment to enforce a zero-tolerance approach, experts have warned.

The caution comes even though the number of people sentenced to death for drug offences around the world has actually fallen by nearly 90% over the past four years, according to a study by Harm Reduction International, with 91 known deaths last year compared with 755 in 2015.

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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at four school strikes in a week – video

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 03:27 PM PST

Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has criss-crossed the continent speaking at rallies in four countries in just eight days in a bid to spur politicians into action. She also made a brief stop at the European parliament in Brussels to address EU leaders. The Swede has become a social media sensation this year with her campaign of school strikes sweeping across dozens of countries and tens of thousands of teenagers participating

Pakistan returns captured Indian pilot – video

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 08:57 AM PST

The Indian pilot who survived being shot down in Kashmir on Wednesday is returned by Pakistan in a 'peace gesture' it is hoped will de-escalate military tensions between the two nuclear states. Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was involved in the worst military crisis in decades between the countries over the disputed territory of Kashmir

Pakistan hands back Indian pilot shot down over Kashmir in 'peace gesture'

Friends speak out about the police killing of Willie McCoy – video

Posted: 01 Mar 2019 04:10 AM PST

On 9 February, the 20-year-old Willie McCoy was shot and killed by police officers in California. He was shot an estimated 25 times in less than four seconds. At the time he had been asleep in his car at a Taco Bell. Willie was an up-and-coming rapper who went by the name of Willie Bo, in a group called FBG

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